Manchester City must shoot down Borussia Dortmund at the Westfalenstadion tonight (9pm) if they want to book their place in the Champions League semifinal, says coach Pep Guardiola.
Technically, Guardiola’s team will advance to the final four of the competition if the two teams play to a draw in Germany after City won the first leg 2-1 last week.
But Guardiola is not looking at the permutations – he is planning to go to Rhineland to shoot down the enemy.
The Spaniard explains: “If you think of the consequences or goals you have to score or concede, you forget what you have to do.
“You focus on what you have to do in the game, the plan we have to execute it.
“After the quality of players will do the rest. It will be better if they don’t score and we win, but in the Champions League you always have a chance.
“We have weapons to score, they have weapons to score. We go there, we aren’t going to defend anything we won here, control their quality, try to win the game.”
Former Dortmund and now-City ace Ilkay Gundogan echoes his coach’s sentiment.
He adds: “I believe we can go anywhere and win, it’s necessary for the quality we have and football we play.
“For us the best case to go into a game is to win.
“Defending a result doesn’t fit us. We should try every single game to win.
“That's what we are used to, talking about the question before, that's why we will handle the game in Germany the same we did here or the games in the past few weeks.”